Articles in category: Information Technology

To some extent, this imbroglio reflects the tech industry’s reduced clout on Beacon Hill. A decade ago, a group like the Massachusetts Software Council would have been busy at the State House protesting this tax. But that group has long since been subsumed into the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, more of a networking group than a lobbying one. Fitzgerald points out that that two of the three former groups that now make up the MTLC had lobbyists on staff. Today, there are none.

On June 6, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced twogrants made by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to the University ofMassachusetts (“UMass”) and Baystate Health that total over $100 million.

The UMass grant will fit out a new science building withthree research centers:

The EDC hosted a roundtable discussion in June featuringMassachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. Weinvited several New York site selectors as well as other state and regional economicdevelopment officials to join us for an engaging conversation about sharedservice center opportunities in our region for companies in the financial andprofessional services and IT sectors. We had hosted a similar roundtable in Bostonin March. Secretary Bialecki has set an ambitious goal to speak to 50 companieswho might be interested in opening a facility about the advantages of westernMassachusetts during 2013. Based ...

“Changing the H-1B visa program will impact Boston and Massachusetts to a greater extent than they will many other parts of the United States,” Kerr said. “We’re a place that has always relied a lot on immigration in science and other technology. Our schools have lot of immigrants who graduate from them and want to stay in the United States.”

Massachusetts is considering allowing small manufacturers to use computers at the Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke to help make parts for larger manufacturers, state officials said yesterday. The plan, which is still in the conceptual stage, is part of a broader effort to help train workers and give them access to the hardware and software they need to make parts that large manufacturers increasingly are designing with computers, said Greg Bialecki, secretary of housing and economic development.

Cloud computing is available through commercial vendors such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc, but using them can be both costly and too slow. Just getting Big Data to computing clusters powerful enough to analyze it can be an elaborate ordeal that can take days. The size of such files can easily overwhelm the computer networks and Internet connections of most small companies, and there are bottlenecks and traffic jams along the way that further slow down delivery.

In 1998, when Jason Mark was teaching a class on Internet strategy, he told students that, before they used any type of technology to create a website, they needed to identify their goals and what they were trying to accomplish. “Even though there is so much different technology that developers can use today, the exact same process still needs to take place,” said the co-founder of Gravity Switch in Northampton. “People need to know what their goals are, and businesses should not assume that technology will fix all their problems. If it were that easy, their competitors would have already ...

The 64 vocational technical programs in Massachusetts represent more than 44,000 students. These schools offer hands-on learning in a number of innovative educational programs to support a range of career fields, especially growing work force sectors, such as advanced manufacturing, clean energy and information technology.

Over 75% of inbound FDI into the US comes fromeight countries -- six in Western Europe, Canada and Japan. The EDC maintains relationshipswith our peers and government officials in all of them, and particularly strongrelationships in all of them except Japan. They are a growing source of leadsfor our Prospect Management system.

Google is coming to Springfield. The Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts is working with the search-engine Google to offer free training to small businesses from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Monday, April 15, at the Springfield Marriott, 2 Boland Way, Springfield.

Gov. Deval L. Patrick and U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, were in attendance. "I have fought hard to bring broadband technology to western and central Massachusetts for many years," Neal said in a prepared statement. "There is simply no reason why every resident, businesss and school in the region should not have reliable high speed internet access. More than one million people will benefit from this important broadband expansion project."

Today, and in support of this mission, MBI, a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, proudly lit the first segment of the new 1,200 mile MassBroadband 123 network to 51 out of 120 community institutions from Springfield to Sandisfield, Mass.

The EDC is partnering with Google to offer a free training for small business on how to take your business from offline to online on April 15 at the Springfield Marriott. Google will provide guidance on how to build a free website, register a domain name and create an online business listing.

For most of his life, Bean — honored by BusinessWest in 2008 as one its youngest-ever 40 Under Forty honorees — has been firmly in charge. And with a gradual shift from candy to computers, he began writing a unique business success story in the Pioneer Valley — one that is constantly growing and evolving.

The EDC has maintained an international business developmentinitiative focused on western Europe. We initially focused on inbound FDI and,while that remains a core objective, we are currently managing more requestsfor trans-Atlantic partnerships, joint ventures and contract manufacturing forthe North America market. We sell the region’s companies and industry sectorsas much as we sell the region as a strategic location. With risk sentimentstill running high on both sides of the Atlantic, classic Greenfield FDI (andGreenfield investment inside the US, for that matter) is limited. But ourpipeline has been filling with opportunistic European ...

Last November the company reported $7 million in revenues for the three months ending in September, down 26 percent year-over-year and down 10 percent from the second quarter. The company blamed the decline on a $1.6 million decrease in OEM royalties versus the prior year period, and a $3.2 million decrease in OEM bundling revenue since the beginning of 2012.

Today in Western Massachusetts the crisis is not the flow of water but the flow of information. Many people can only get Internet connections which are just a trickle compared to the high-speed Internet service offered elsewhere by cable and phone companies. But they do not serve many rural areas because they don't see any profits to be made there. To bring service to people in those areas, the Patrick administration created the Massachusetts Broadband Institute. Using state and federal funds, MBI

In both cases, Massachusetts’ reputation was a big plus in convincing them that this is the best state to locate. Ourjob at the EDC is to get them to consider western Mass as well as Boston. Thefact that each firm spent a few days here indicates that we are at least in thegame.

The $165 million Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center opened in November on Bigelow Street between Cabot and Appleton streets. Partners in the research facility run by colleges and private firms include world-famous institutions Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Foulkes, who directs the Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at UMass Amherst, explains that MixMAP draws on a principled statistical modeling framework and the vast array of summary data now available from genetic association studies to formally test at a new, locus-level, association.